The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-16
THE PAN HANDLE RAILROAD ROB-
Berries.
PITTsBuRa. April II

PITTsBURG, April II.
The wholesale arrests of the en-
ployes of the Pan Handle Railroad for
robbing freight trains, continues to be
the principal topic of conversation
among railroad men and citizens gene
rally.
ALL THE THIEVES LIKELY TO BE
CONVICTED.
No arrests have been reported since
last night. 1t is thought the officials
of the road are satisfied with the work
of the detectives and that no more ar
rests Will be made IN this city. Speak
ing of the probably conviction of the
men low in jail, Special Agent Rue
said this morning that, of the sixty
men now under arrest, there we're not
more than one, or possibly two, of them
who stood any chance of being shown
not guilty.
Said he: I'VE had our evidence so
complete that we didn't make an ar
rest until we had sufficient proof to
show that the man was guilty. We ex.
pect to make eight or ten more arrests
of men who worked the road success
fully for a time, and then, Tor fear of
detection, took positions on other lines.
This will swell the total number of ar
rests TO sixty-eight or seventy"
MI. Rue said the saddest case in con-
nectIon with the arrests was that of a
man whose child was dying. When
the officers Knocked at the door of his
home on Sunday night he was sitting
with his wife by the bedside of his sick
child. He appeared to be a man of
more than ordinary intelligence, and
his home had an air Of refinement
about it. When the officers told him
they had a warrant for his arrest he
seemed to realize at once the disgrace
into which he had fallen, and he broke
down completely.
A THIEF CoNFEssEs.
The capture of J.. II. Dunlap, at
Dennlson, Ohio, yesterday, particu-
ularly pleased the detectives. He
made a confession, in which he SAID
that the stealing had been going on for
months. He sale be could give the
names of all the men implicated on the
Pittsburg Division OF the Pan Handle,
but was afraid to do so, his language
to the officers being: 81 would give
YOU the names, officers, but great Godl
they would kill me-" There was no
organization among the robbers, Dun
lap said, and no regular plans of work.
Each crew worked by itself.
1t was common understanding that
every man should take all he could and
dispose of it to the best advantage.
There was a number Of principals y
that name beng applied to those who
reaped the largest benefits from the
robberles by giving the otheas pointers
as to what cars contained the most
goods. These persons were gener-
ously rewarded by the less prominent
thieves after the p,under has been dis
posed of to the fences.
The fences, Dunlap said, were To-
Gated III New Philadelphia, Dennison.
Steubenvllle, Cincinnati and Pitts
burg, and also In Columbus. Notwith-
standisg Dunlap's confession, the
officers of the road believe that the
plunderers were thoroughly organized
and were carrying on the robberies under
systematic direction of shrewd leaders.
When a new man entered the service
OF the road, if he was thought TO be
the right kind of a fellow, he was
initiated into to the gang with a rigid
oath binding him TO secrecy. After he
had been initiated enough TO keep him
in check If he began to feel any pangs
of conscience, it was broadly limited to
him that any wrong would result
disastrously, as r%ailroading furnished
6rst-class opportunities for putting
men out of the way.
DISCOVERY OF DYNAMITE CART.
RIDGES.
While rummagIng through the effects
of one of the ~ringleaders of the Pan
Handle robbers, this morning, Special
Officer Miller discovered a package con-
tanning six giant dynamite cartridges,
sufficient to blow up the largest build
ing IN town. The discovery created
considerable alarm, and the cartridges
we're handled very gingerly. A further
examination disclosed a lot Of fuse and
caps, in fact, all the necessary phara-
phernalia for the successful firing of the
cartridges. Immediately after the ind
ling of the dynamite an investigation
was begun, the result OF which, how
ever, the detectives refused to make
| public.
i They even declined to give the name
of the man in whose room the stuff
was found. Officer Miller intImated
that the object of the robber in secur-
ing and storing the dynamite was
known, and that it would make good
reading when the proper time for its
disclosure came.
But three additional arrests were
made to-day. The first one was Elmer
Young, a Panhandle brakeman, ar
rested at East Palestine, Ohio. In his
house, a large quantity of goods sup
posed to have been stolen, was recov-
cred.
About noon J.. X. Mullen, a brake
man against whom there are eleven
charges, walked into Deputy Mayor
Gripp's Office and gave himself up. A
little later in the day James l.. Arm
strong, for whom a warrant was out,
Lid Ito SanNa thing